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Can someone explain this old one-panel comic to me? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been looking at it on and off all morning and I just don't get it.

It's a New Yorker cartoon from 1967. New Yorker cartoons generally aren't especially funny, but I usually understand the point of the joke.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In 1967 Vietnam protests were really gaining steam. This was the year of the Pentagon march with Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and countless other activists. If there was a political meaning to this cartoon, it could have been related to the war and its backlash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

'Merica shoving its nose in Vietnam where it ought not have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The sort of 'military' style to the guy's jacket makes me think you are on to something.